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Haurongo: Fels, Willi

Haurongo tūhonohono

A vice-regal occasion

Benham, William Blaxland

1860–1950

Zoologist

Brasch, Charles Orwell

1909–1973

Poet, editor, teacher, translator, lecturer

Brown, John Macmillan

1845–1935

University professor and administrator

Peter Henry Buck

Buck, Peter Henry

1877 (year uncertain)–1951

Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist, museum director

Chapman, Frederick Revans

1849–1936

Lawyer, judge, ethnologist

Fenwick, George

1847–1929

Printer, newspaper proprietor and editor, community leader

Hallenstein, Bendix

1835–1905

Merchant, politician, manufacturer

Hamilton, Augustus

1853–1913

Ethnologist, biologist, museum director

Holloway, John Ernest

1881–1945

Anglican priest, botanist, university lecturer

Skinner, Henry Devenish

1886–1978

Soldier, ethnologist, university lecturer, museum curator and director, librarian

Biographies that mention Fels, Willi

Brasch, Charles Orwell

1909–1973

Poet, editor, teacher, translator, lecturer

de Beer, Esmond Samuel

1895–1990

Scholar, editor, collector, bibliophile, philanthropist

Hall, Thomas Aubrey Chappé

1873–1958

Wood carver, farmer

Prior, Ian Ambury Miller

1923–2009

Cardiologist, epidemiologist, activist, collector, patron of the arts

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Dimitri Anson. 'Fels, Willi', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126715/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).